Abstract:

This seminar covers some recent results on the control of battery energy under uncertainty in loads or market conditions. The Model Predictive control is a powerful tool to determine a good control sequence but typically needs a good model of any disturbance. In this case we take the approach of maximizing the expected value of the costs. Care is required in the evaluation of expected costs which needs a model of the variance of the load predictions.

About the Speaker:

Gerard Ledwich is a professor in Electrical Power Engineering at QUT and Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia.

He has held positions at University of Queensland, and in the Queensland Electricity Commission and the University of Newcastle.

The current position is Chair in Power Engineering at Queensland University of Technology. His research interests include control systems, power electronics, power systems, condition monitoring and distributed generation.

He has published extensively, and is on the editorial panel of  Modern Power and Clean Energy.